Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf

Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf (14 October 1896-15 August 1944) was the Berlin police president from 1935 to 1944, when he was executed for his role in the Operation Valkyrie bomb plot against Adolf Hitler.

Biography
Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf was born in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in the German Empire on 14 October 1896 to a noble landowner. Helldorf became a Lieutenant in the Reichswehr in 1915 and served in World War I, and in 1924 he joined the Nazi Party. In 1931 he became an SA leader in Berlin, and in 1935 he was appointed as the President of Police in the German capital. He used his office for personal enrichment and withheld information that proved that Werner von Blomberg's wife did not have a criminal record for posing for pornographic photos, as well as the fact that Werner von Fritsch did not hire homosexual male prostitutes (another cavalry captain with a similar surname did). After Fritsch was dismissed as commander-in-chief, Helldorf leaked the news to the Wehrmacht, guilting them on their accusations.

As early as 1938, Helldorf was involved in the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler. He allied with Hans Gisevius (German vice consul for Switzerland) and Claus von Stauffenberg's conspirators, and on 20 July 1944 his goal in Operation Valkyrie would be to prevent the police from stopping the plotters. He suggested that Stauffenberg and the others go into hiding if Heinrich Himmler took power, and they could try the coup again, saying that they would live to fight another day rather than be killed by the Gestapo.